Johann Kaspar Schmidt, better known as Max Stirner (the "nom de plume" he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of his high brow ["Stirn"]), was a German philosopher, who ranks as one of the literary grandfathers of nihilism, existentialism, post-modernism and anarchism, especially of individualist anarchism. Stirner's main work is "The Ego and Its Own", … Wikipedia
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From its first appearance in 1844, Max Stirners major work, Der Einzige und sein Eigentum ,[1] has produced little agreement among its many interpreters. tmh.floonet.net/articles/maxundhegel.shtml